Archean

Archean

Badger Smart Quad
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Update: 26 Sep, 2024 @ 2:51am

Lights were broken, fixed.

Update: 26 Sep, 2024 @ 2:33am

- Removed the hole in the bottom of the ship for the drill.
- Added a lot of computer stuff for ascent/climb rate and speed so the craft no longer gets locked in an over-ride state
- Tweaked descent rates
- Tweaked turn rates
- Set max speed to 85. If you want to go faster, turn the autopilot off and only go over 85 at over 3,000 meters.

Update: 23 Sep, 2024 @ 7:34pm

MAJOR UPDATE

THIS IS THE FINAL UPDATE

Other than small patches if there are errors in the computer, this quad is feature complete. I'm happy with it.

- MAJOR: Made aircraft control multiplicative of v/s thrust, not additive as it was which was affecting stability at high speeds
- Raised max speed of autopilot to 90 m/s
- Autopilot compass interface wraps around instead of requiring you to "reset"
- Added DTE (distance until batteries are empty) indicator
- Added TTE (time until batteries are empty) indicator
- Moved mining controls to the right panel under the ore scanner
- Vastly improved v/s handling
- Vastly improved pitch and roll handling
- Added Autoland feature (see guide)
- Headlights now have 1 button and 3 modes: Off, On, High beams
- Removed an anchor and moved the existing anchor to the rear for better balance and weight distribution
- Added Drill Efficiency indicator
- Added ground safety mechanisms so the autopilot "shouldn't" crash into the side of a mountain
- Cleaned up code
- Added "Time Server" code to the spare computer so you can setup your own time server on your own single-player o rmulti-player server.
- Tuned rotor RPM's to run slower but maintain performance
- Increased max prop pitch depending on rotor RPM
- Added alarm when rotors are stalling or reaching (or have reached) their maximum thrust capabilities
- Many other changes made that optimizes how the craft handles with autopilot and stabilization
- Fixed a lot of bugs where the autopilot or stabilization would sometimes stop working
- Fixed yaw to be far smoother and have equal power when yawing left and right

Update: 19 Sep, 2024 @ 9:30am

Tweaks to the computer (minor changes)

Update: 18 Sep, 2024 @ 4:44pm

* Buttons for autopilot are far more responsive and don't double up your input any more
-- Press and Hold any of the arrow buttons for rapid increments
-- Pressing and holding altitude arrows will increment by 100, and 5 when single tapping
-- Docking alignment beacon added and automatically switches to docking mode on target mode for nav instrument

Update: 17 Sep, 2024 @ 7:31am

POLISH UPDATE

This craft is "completed" as far a design goes.

- Added lift kit next to docking port at the center of lift
- Tuned Pitch/Roll/Heading/V/S stabilization to be rock-steady, yet responsive
- Added reverse course to autopilot
- Added "TAR" or target course to autopilot (see description)
- Added target selector (see description)
- Added Clock and Solar Clock "Client" (see description)
- Raised speed limit on the autopilot to 75 m/s IAS
- Raised service ceiling on the autopilot to 12,000 meters
- Added 3 flight modes: Eco, Normal, Lift (see description)

Update: 12 Sep, 2024 @ 2:49am

SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS

- Added a dock and controls in the cockpit (yellow = armed, green = docked, no lights = unarmed)
- Significantly improved battery life by tuning the RPM PIM modules totaling 100 IRL mins of flight time
- Significantly improved turn logic and the PIM modules making turning more precise
- Combined all programs into 1 computer, but there is still a spare computer for those wishing to experiment
- Tweaked yaw logic so you can no longer flip the quad at high speeds

** Still waiting on devs to fix a crash when editing programs

UPCOMING IMPROVEMENTS
- Will tweak dampening on the pitch PIM so that it is more precise at low speeds (currently is +/- 1 m/s)
- Will add a clock and sun rise/set count-down
- I will deem this craft completed once I'm able to edit the above without crashing every 5-15 seconds)

Update: 9 Sep, 2024 @ 2:44am

Updated autopilot to be more stable at high speeds while climbing

Update: 8 Sep, 2024 @ 3:29pm

More tweaks to autopilot

Update: 8 Sep, 2024 @ 3:10am

Tweaked the autopilot.
- More resistance added to pitch at high speed to prevent -G rollout
- More dampening added to roll and reduced how much roll is applied by the autopilot
- Heading Hold is more consistent but still working on it (the variable does NOT want to update with button input)